Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson: Pluto's Place in the Universe

[@shpongle7322]

If you ask me, I believe Pluto is happier with his new family. They are neighbors and are similar in size and function. Pluto is no longer an outcast but one of many in his new family. Awwww 🥰

[@babygunckel]

I can listen to him for hours!! We are lucky that he is here, on earth, with us at this time!

[@TheRocky0601]

Lucky is the righteous word! As I wish I lived during Tesla or this Einstein guy.

[@otrondal]

It would be very polite if some aliens could borrow him for a week.

[@jb111082]

@@otrondal What does that mean?

[@fiaestebanlara6092]

YEE

[@axelbaldursson7645]

​@@fiaestebanlara6092Unbearably easy. talks too much. all secretions are drawn out, too excited.

[@tristan3456]

Quarantine has got me watching Neil alot lately...

[@prevosfr]

Ñn

[@mohammedomar4652]

STARTALK is very entertaining .... don't need to be in lockdown for that

[@horu6459]

You don't have to teach your kids to love science, they already do! You spend a year (with your kids) teaching them to walk and talk, and the rest telling them to shut up and sit down! I LOVE HIM.

[@livenandlove1980]

I don't know why but listening to Neil deGrasse Tyson always calms me.

[@Taghouly]

livenandlove1980 he stutters sometimes and i like like it for some reason

[@itoncemighthave9666]

becuase hes an enlightening genius

[@derrickstorm6976]

Incomprehensible intelligence

[@drecdabeast]

@@derrickstorm6976 i listen at work when im pissed at a mf takes my mind off it except when i typed this.

[@catherinefriedman8511]

i feel the same way.

[@johnlaccohee-joslin4477]

I have to say that i have watched quite a lot of videos that Mr. TYSON has been on and find them very mind exspanding at the least. I get the feeling that if teachers were made to sit and watch how he goes about rendering facts and figures in a way that everyone can understand the world would become firstly a very interesting place to live but more importantly i think people would be better equiped to talk to one anther. I can recall so many things that I have done my best to explain about what I am doing spending my money on my optical equipment and what results I have so far, only to find that i had left them behind after the first sentance, not because i used big words, but because they did not understand the simple ones right at the beginning. It never ceases to make me cring when you ask someone how many times does that stick that is stuck in the snow at the north pole complete a circle and what its called. If they do not know that then explaining other things a bit more detailed becomes very hard for them to get their heads round, like why curtain things happen while using a telescope of one sort do not happen when using another type. We live in a very small place in a huge universe but.it should not stop us all from wishing to learn more about all of it.

[@thomasnielsen4326]

I wonder if you can get a few more people to get a hold of you and let me know what I can do for them to make sure they are okay 👌🤔🙂😏.

[@YourPlanetHere]

I love his passion and his charisma, one of the most important men in science today. His greatest contribution, more than any of his other works, is making science seem more accessible and fighting for a scientifically literate culture :)

[@jimbrooks3370]

"You spend a year teaching them to walk and talk, and the rest of their lives telling them to shut up and sit down." Probably the best quote I've ever heard to explain why most children lose their thirst for knowledge as they grow.

[@jws1948ja]

What I remember is my father in law calling me stupid when I talked about continental drift.

[@derrickstorm6976]

Exactly :(

[@toolguyslayer1]

@@jws1948ja how much money will that make you was the point i think. It is good to know things though the more you know the more you need to know its your world free thinker whats next

[@tysonlester3611]

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[@tysonlester3611]

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[@dannyseo5111]

"the accessibility of the cosmos to the public is magnified by the fact that vocabulary is not in the way" 1:10:11

[@IlovelouisDTV]

i liked this interviewer. best interviews are done when you just get neil started and watch him go off on his own thing.

[@Rottensteam]

21:58 Jan Oort was dutch, not danish. I have corrected Neil, I can take on the universe now!

[@Aethelia]

I would expect an astrophysicist to get such a detail wrong. To them, we're all just from Earth.

[@fiaestebanlara6092]

STRAIGHT UP

[@sours4g181]

Such an intelligent human. He gets it. Love listening to him talk

[@theheavyweight2008]

1:26:50 an extremely important 5 minutes of wisdom that everyone should listen to

[@matthewbrown9336]

Extremely fascinating. Thanks for pointing it out

[@suerayss]

I have gained so much respect for dr Tyson after listening to this talk. Amazing talk and absolutely breathtaking breath of knowledge. Wish he could visit India and enlighten the kids here who have lot of thirst for science and good teachers like Dr Tyson.

[@YM-zz5qq]

*breadth

[@suerayss]

@@YM-zz5qq no breathtaking.

[@Melatina77]

I love this man! Thanks for the upload!

[@BruceK10032]

Amen to that! Even with the volume all the way up, I can barely hear the questions.

[@derrickstorm6976]

"Why can the worm breathe under the rock?" somehow struck me as such an intelligent thing to wonder

[@ozdorothyfan]

He has an amusing method of delivery while making valid points.

[@beanzieobeanz2955]

late to this but in current times so healthy to listen to an intelligent man argue vehemently about bs

[@keetopuffs]

Every time I fall asleep KZbin puts on these videos.

[@axelbaldursson7645]

My to. Unbearably easy. talks too much. all secretions are drawn out, too excited.

[@PhenyxinNC]

at about 0:10:35 I swear I expected Dr. Tyson to start singing "one of these things is not like the others...can you tell which one."

[@Shermanbay]

Audience questions with no sound. Reeeely great idea!

[@hotliner2872]

Yes, DGT ain't all that in the pure sense, but everything else he does to get people to relate, which is key to the mission, he hits every note. Let him do what he does well and everyone benefits. Funding? Check. Please do not mess this up Mr. Poster, we are all on the same team, which is to learn new things; DGT does a great job of keeping this in the forefront of everyone's mind. And they vote. And when he is in the educational science groove and not thinking policy, he is rock solid on topic. l tilt my hat to scientists who try to break through to politicos, especially effective ones. (footnote: so I don't have to :-) )

[@exilfromsanity]

Read the book, very funny and informative too.

[@RHS-992]

I think it is not just all about dog, It's about people that afraid of change, afraid of new things, people with old thinking, and do nothing good for innovation, or kids.

[@randolphpatterson5061]

It's been well known for quite some time, that people find comfort in what is already familiar to them, even if that means they might live in squalor. They'll resist change , even if change would provide them with happier lives. The people who get the most out of life are those who understand this and so seek change.

[@holycrapfreakinsweet]

I honestly thought the video was paused or hanged up or something, but I checked and found out someone from the audience was giving a question only they could hear... bugs me...

[@yourroyalhighness7662]

Happened to me too. I thought someting was wrong with my IPAD.

[@dbrawley58]

The South African /African was so smooth.

[@Joyce-ow1ks]

A lot of people missed that.

[@AlvaSudden]

Tyson is wrong. Pluto orbits the sun, Pluto is round, Pluto doesn't orbit another planet, Pluto has a cool name. Pluto is a planet.

[@derrickstorm6976]

It's sad that the narrator guy didn't get the culture talk around 30:00 (35:05) minute mark, because that shows that even rather intelligent people can still be such blunt instruments, and that it's still such a great leap to DeGrasse kind of level of just understanding, not knowledge but understanding

[@brydonjesse]

100% right about astronauts being super celebrity omg amazing ppl

[@RaymondReijerkerk101]

I like this guys humour. A very bright man!

[@jimstewart3283]

Love your spreading of knowledge so much.

[@CaptainPrincess]

It's kind of different though, because despite what people often think, Stephen isn't really a scientific-based orator like Neil is. Stephen is more of a cultural icon, more a publically adored idol of a sort of representation, an almost imagined ideal of the Typical British Older Man. Neil is an incredibly imaginative genius in a field of science. Whole different package. I'd say the only way in which Neil and Stephen were equal is they're both awesome smart people.

[@squamish4244]

I always liked Pluto because it is so far out that it is way out there in the darkness in the edge of the Solar System, where the sun is just a dot in the sky, and so cold that its atmosphere is frozen to the ground. Being named after the sinister Roman god of the underworld just added to its badassery.

[@GaryNumeroUno]

34:00 If there was no toilet paper there would be a riot... oh... hang on!

[@brianconley1732]

Pine cones!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🤪

[@picklefish74]

We would have to get used to using a bidet.

[@cmmc3400]

It was a brilliant move on Walt Disney's part naming that dog.

[@AlisonsArt]

The planet Pluto was discovered/recognized in 1932. When did Disney's Pluto join the cast? Wondering if it was a current event name at the time. off to google....

[@bunnee777]

Mankind has now arrived at PLUTO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@northzealand]

He is great

[@Rossdink]

He’s absolutely correct about Pluto

[@lomigreen]

I think you’re the smartest person around, Dr. Tyson.

[@waynewise9773]

if you put earth where pluto is it would freeze solid and it too would have a tail as it approached the sun.

[@derrickstorm6976]

Idiot, the tail would come from the dry ice melting. When you have that ice frozen, there's no tail. And Earth has strong enough gravity in itself, And it's atmosphere, to keep any water from becoming a comet's tail

[@jilianvan8165]

@@derrickstorm6976 So unnecessarily rude ~ Learn a little from NDT knowledge can be shared with gentleness and humor. 🎐

[@Awesomenizzleness23]

I just wan't to say im very bad at math but I also know im very smart when it comes to space and the cosmos. I love science, Im always thinking about it and I also never read books but im going to get YOUR book Dr Neil deGrasse Tyson I love your speeches your lectures. im very fascinated about what you talk about.

[@idicula1979]

I feel like Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson is like the Banjamin Franklin of our day and much like Benjamin Franklin was he should be an internatiol superstar, I feel like in today's age we have lost that ability for scientific inquiry and also to be captivated by what is around us.

[@CaptainPrincess]

Yes I know his LIFE has been very atypical, I was talking about his character, what he's like compared to Neil as a public figure. How he's generally seen and the attitude he carries that is so loveable about him. It was not a description of Stephen it was a description of his public persona as seen by the general assumptions and views of him.

[@merchillio]

the part about culture (starts around 31:40) is a really interesting to look at it.

[@derrickstorm6976]

Very underrated segment by what is shown in the comments

[@bobinthewest8559]

The takeaway: Time to lay off of the soft drinks and cereal.

[@pimnijsten9007]

21:58 Jan Oort was Dutch (just like Gerard Kuiper from the Kuiper Belt), not Danish. It's wrong in Neils book Death by black hole as well, on page 80.

[@IlovelouisDTV]

actually one could argue that mathematics was created to explain the phenomena observed in the world of physics so really, mathematics was built on physics.

[@derrickstorm6976]

If you look at history, you realize it's a "possible argument" that could be true. It is the truth (beyond "I have one grain here and other here so now I have two grains to grow" simplicity)

[@smyrnianlink]

"Planet" is just a word. What is strange is that people are disturbed to use the same word for Mercury and Pluto while they are not uncomfortable to use the same word for Mercury and Jupiter.

[@WickedV3ng3nc3]

I remember hearing about it in my High school science class.

[@barbaradonelson3835]

Luved it, learned a lot also....wish i could have heard the questions in the audience,...Had to guess what their questions were by his answers

[@sabin97]

is the white guy the radio host that interviewed dr cooper?

[@maskedmarvyl4774]

If Tyson has a problem, it's that he begins a sentence, branches off before he's halfway through it, branches off into a side story before continuing his original sentence, branches off again into another sentence without ever finishing the first one, then when you try to get him to clarify the sentence he never finished, says "WAI-WAI-WAI-WAI-WAI-WAIT!!!! I'M MEETING HIM HALFWAY!!! JUST LET ME FINISH!!!" Meanwhile, he's forgotten the first and second points he started to make, and then says "does that make sense?" He needs to put himself on a word budget of 5,000 words per statement, and needs to stop running over people in a way that's frankly rude. If brevity is the soul of wit, then Tyson's explanations would actually greatly benefit from answering questions without meandering down pathways that he understands for himself, but other people don't.

[@cerngox]

They need a cordless mic so you can hear the questions

[@calvinlary6134]

To m😢me, Pluto will always be a planet!

[@ReuvenF957]

Megillah comes from the Hebrew word "liglol", which means "to roll" because books and stories were recorded on scrolls. Lengthy ones were called, "Megillot", the singular of which is Megillah. When someone says "the whole Megillah". he means the whole story.

[@stalbourne]

3:31 I learrned greek and roman mythology first than the cartoon when I was a kid...

[@tripsr4kids]

i feel a dim veil stupidity lift from my head every time i hear this guy speak. i feel my synapses firing, my brain growing. i feel a little smarter. it really is amazing. and im always a little bit more in awe of the world after i hear him speak. how many people can u say that about in the world?

[@sanctionh2993]

I think the reason we quit paying attention to astronaughts in space, is because we stopped expanding into space. It's been 50 years, and we havn't gone, with humans, further than the moon. We should of been mining asteroids by now. Either in orbit of Earth, or in the belt.

[@SyntaxScout]

Do you notice without looking at the screen the host voice sounds similar to Chris Hadfield??

[@No_OneV]

Here goes another 1 hour and 40 mins of my life again

[@MrJihadTime]

Pluto is still a planet to me

[@picklefish74]

Then you have to also count the moon as a planet, because the moon is larger .

[@MrJihadTime]

randall davis no you don’t as the moon is a moon because it orbits a planet, it’s nothing to do with size

[@DellaWatson-cz3mq]

What you just told me about Pluto has made me even madder at you now... Pluto is special.... Yes I still haven't forgiven you all these years later... And I'm 38

[@PhenyxinNC]

BTW, if you haven't seen the documentary "The Pluto Files" you need to. It's Dr. Tyson at some of his best.

[@istarsamu5585]

Super confused European thinking how he gets his water to boil till 212 degrees.Until he realises, yeah Fahrenheit...

[@ryldauril6379]

well did you ppl that invented your scale of measurement defend yourselves in 2 world wars? umm no..so its feet inchs and fahrenheit..yes america was stupid saving you ...and feeding you and defending ..YOU

[@Prodigious1One]

@@ryldauril6379 well... The USA didn't enter those wars until 1917 and 1941. The UK, the Commonwealth nations, and other countries were in them since 1914 and 1939.

[@gunnarkaestle]

@@Prodigious1One I am not sure about the connection of being sucessful at warfare and the alignment of measurement units. In the middle ages, each city had it's own set of cubits and pounds and it own time zone. It just impaired trade - in 1975 the Metric Conversion Act was passed in the US to have SI as "the preferred system of weights and measures for United States trade and commerce". Maybe the transition period is not one generation, but 2-3. I think that rocket science now has made the change after a few avoidable mishaps.

[@Prodigious1One]

@@gunnarkaestle Yeah, Americans need time to adopt a new measurement system.

[@gunnarkaestle]

@@Prodigious1One In Germany cars are still measured in horsepower by Joe Sixpack, although since the late 1970s, kWs were made mandatory as unit for engine power. It is a simple factor of 3/4 but still both units are used in parallel and only slowly, the horsepower is fading away. Maybe with electric vehicles this trend accelerates.

[@McMurchie]

he said the US dominated Astrophysics last century, by quoting big bang as American created words. Sorry mate, that was a British person, Fred Hoyle. In fact a huge amount of discoveries were from the UK, Germany etc so I wouldn't say dominated.

[@tomasneel1980]

Tyson, a very good , orator with little facts and a agenda of his own, just follow the money. .

[@InfiniteStupidityWoW]

Rogue planets.

[@exilfromsanity]

tomas neel "payed"??????

[@brianjcavanaugh]

Save Pluto!

[@JuanPena-ql1hi]

The part in the big bang theory when sheldon is mad at him for the killing Pluto 😂😂

[@DellaWatson-cz3mq]

I ain't gonna lie, I'm still mad at him for killing Pluto too, and I still haven't forgiven him yet... I don't think I ever will 😢... I'm glad to hear though that Pluto is still a partial planet

[@tanyajantz6376]

BTW Clyde Tombaugh is from Burdett, KS.... My grandmother went to school wi him there. There is also a plaque there on the highway.. :).

[@williamchurchman5686]

Neil Tyson is an amazing speaker and I enjoy everything he says. I also love to learn about the universe.

[@colleenforrest7936]

It's not about Pluto's place in the Universe, it's about Land Rights in the solar system. It's not going to be long (maybe within 500 years) before we start settling the solar system. Think of the fight that exists here between if something is an island or an atole. Pluto is by no means small from the perspective of land mass. It's the size of 27 Texases (And Ceres is the size of 4 Texases). Both Ceres and Pluto represent a major source of water in their immediate area. Whatever future laws we make in the future about planets and land ownership will not necessarily be carried over to the dwarfs. As it stands right now. land rights on Pluto could be managed the same way as land rights on Benu. The first company or country that sets up shop there could get the rights to the whole thing.

[@mrfbng]

So, since the asteroid Ceres is round, could you call it the World Ceres?

[@BartonSangerWoodside80]

Woke me up, but the Greek God PLUTO is no doubt feeling disrespected!

[@jackehli621]

Why record this if the people listening to it cannot hear the people asking the questions?

[@PeggyJame]

You start learning the minute you emerge

[@patricklynch9574]

I was 5 I named my pitbull German Shepherd Chow Chow Pluto after Mickey Mouse's dog. When I got older I then found out Pluto is the god of the underworld IE hell. Which was a much more fitting name for this bad ass dog. I still miss him ,but now he's guarding Hades.

[@gunnarkaestle]

1:06:28 "Half the schools in this district are below average." I think that this statement is not trivial, but gives us the information that median equals the mean value in this case.

[@PhenyxinNC]

No, that isn't the only reason...in fact you'll see, in the definition of "planet", that size isn't referenced outside of "is your gravity such that you are round", which Pluto is. In fact, if you "listen" to Dr. Tyson he discusses the composition of Pluto and points out that it really is more like a comet than an asteroid even. The Dr even hints at the idea that perhaps Jupiter and it's kin are not really planets either BASED ON THEIR COMPOSITION!

[@NomadsNeverGiveUp]

Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, i think you are the only smart ones that didn't lose ur humour. Thank u and that makes u a special person, someone enjoyable to watch and learn from. But i am hesitantly and respectfully correcting you for saying that Marianas trench is in the Philippines vice Guam(USA).

[@alinaysa]

get microphone in the audience next time...

[@PeggyJame]

The Universe expands in all directions

[@dotexe4981]

59:30 I'm European and I never say I'm European when someone asks me where I am from, I think almost no European does this.

[@larrydean1779]

Love him. Hate mic-less venue.

[@michaelreichardt2308]

Neil deGrasse Tyson, the American Harald Lesch! Both are capable to bring Astrophysics to the general public in an understandable way!

[@atheismeeu]

I'm enjoying this conversation a lot so far, but I'd like to say that Jan Hendrik Oort, who came up with the hypothesis of the Oort Cloud, is Dutch, not Danish.

[@AbuBishir]

Reclassifying Pluto was the best thing. There are way too many large objects orbiting the Sun. Who wants to memorize all those things?

[@rogeriopauloluis]

Obrigado

[@dennislarson9560]

For good reasons, doctors scribble prescription so the patient can't read it. What happened when the President tried to tell folks what to take with regard to COVID-19?

[@kirarawhiskers8606]

I'm not originally from the U.S,never gave half a fuck about Disney cartoons but Pluto is my favorite planet. I have no idea why but it's always been so xD

[@brianjcavanaugh]

Neptune crosses Pluto's orbit. And Pluto's orbit might be clear of other independently orbiting objects, other than Neptune. And its tipped orbit shouldn't make a difference.

[@kght222]

if "are you round" were the question used to consider something a planet there wouldn't be 37 planets, there would be hundreds, maybe more.

[@loue6563]

I think it is also the "underdog" fact too. Americans always want to fight for the rights of the underdog. and that we learned our solar system had 9 planets and to "loose" one makes us feel we are now smaller or less.

[@scotexscarrier8461]

damn its so annoying when the audience asking questions and they dont give them a mic so we can hear them

[@UKMonkey]

So - here's a question - if Pluto isn't a planet because it hasn't cleared it's orbital area of other things..... but we know that it intersects the orbit of neptune .... is neptune a planet?

[@alainmaitre2069]

Yes

[@Jonasteno]

There is no doubt about that.

[@Strettger]

I would argue that at this point we risk going into debating metaphysics, and I pre-emptively propose we agree to disagree?

[@twstf8905]

Ba dum dum PSSSH 🥁

[@fordycegozali241]

@42:40: "I have two kids whom I'm experimenting". I will show this vid to the kids when they are old enough :)

[@danibroxy1465]

We have a soda isle in the UK supermarkets. Didn't realise that it was weird :/

[@codonbyte]

Ah, but Neil, sending people to another star-system stops not only the asteroid, but also the near-earth supernova, the gamma-ray burst, and the comet that we don't have time to deflect because comet orbits are so unpredictable compared to asteroid orbits.

[@jojobar5877]

Maybe Neil should have mentioned Mike Brown’s team at Caltech who did all the work to discover the other minor planets out there that really demoted Pluto.